linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH wq/for-3.7] workqueue: move gcwq

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Message-ID: <20120906202642.GL29092@google.com>
Date:	Thu, 6 Sep 2012 13:26:42 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH wq/for-3.7] workqueue: move gcwq_associate() under CPU
 hotplug section

Hello, Lai.

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 01:09:48PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> From f3b57042feab077e340da166f0a0329793e94a16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 12:59:59 -0700
> 
> gcwq_associate() is now more involved with CPU hotplug and its current
> location requires forward declarations of
> gcwq_claim/release_management().  Move it under CPU hotplug section
> and remove the prototypes.
> 
> This patch is pure relocation.  Nothing else changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

This and the fixes have been pushed out to wq/for-3.7.  Please go
ahead and base cleanup / restructuring patches on top of it.

If you can make the hotplug path cleaner, that would be great but
please keep in mind that hotplug path being a bit messier is better
than contaminating the usual paths with considerations for hotplug.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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